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Aug. 14, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 14, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #3
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I love this story.
It's out of Lincoln to North Carolina.
Republican Patrick McHenry.
Patrick McHenry, Republican Congressman for North Carolina, loudest constituents have no desire to see conciliation on gridlocked Capitol Hill unless it comes from Obama and the Democrats.
This is such music to my ears.
Patrick McHenry had a at a town meeting, and his his voters showed up that the hell with this compromise crack.
Let them compromise.
And it's about time.
You know, Senator Dole's out there saying Republican Party needs to engage in outreach.
Why?
Why don't the Democrats ever have to engage in outreach?
Why don't the Democrats ever have to make any adjustments?
Why don't they have to make any accommodations?
Why is it always the Republicans?
So Congressman McHenry's constituents show up.
He's uh uh is holding public QA sessions out there during the uh during the break.
And conservative Republican loyalists showed up to one of his town meetings and demanding that he and his House colleagues defund Obamacare, refuse to raise the debt limit, and generally intensify opposition to the White House and to Harry Reed.
Uh they I'll tell you, wherever these town meetings are taking place, the message from Republican voters is the same.
Would you guys start fighting back?
Would you start defending the country and the direction Obama's taking it?
We don't want to compromise with these people.
We don't want to conciliate with the Democrats.
We want to beat them.
That's what Republican voters are telling Republicans who at least are having the courage to hold town meetings.
Not all of them are.
But those who do, that is the message.
Now, NBC News.
This is fascinating, folks.
This is, I guess, this would go in the category of why the old media is dying.
The NBC Nightly News did a story last night.
You know what they just found out?
NBC Nightly News just found out that Obamacare is forcing employers to convert full-time workers to part-timers.
They just found this out.
Now you have known this has been going on for how many months now.
Seriously, months this has been going on because you might be affected.
This is the old thing about 30 hours or less, and you don't have to provide health care for people.
And so a lot of businesses have been converting full-timers to part-timers.
NBC just found out about it, and they did a report.
They actually did a report.
They had a reporter who went out there and reported, and she's good, Lisa Myers.
You know what my guess is?
My guess is that Lisa Myers has had this story for months and has been trying to get it on the air.
That's my guess.
And I I'm not, I don't want to ruin her career here.
But I've I've she's interviewed me.
I've had several segments with her.
And she's good.
Like Jamie Gangell at MBC is good.
There's a number of them that are.
My guess is that this is not news to her, but it has been news to her editors.
I'm just guessing.
And here's how it went.
This is the uh, let's see, we had uh fill in anchor.
Uh Lester Holt.
I think Brian Williams was watching tape of his daughter on that uh Dunham show.
Took the night off.
Either that or knee surgery.
Uh one of the one of the two.
Said Lester Holt was in there and he got the ball rolling.
We're learning more tonight about some of the unintended consequences Of the Affordable Care Act, which the President himself now calls Obamacare.
Some workers who thought it meant they'd finally get some health insurance are instead getting hit with a double whammy.
No insurance and a pay cut.
By the way, this is another thing that is starting to have.
Now, these guys are how many months late to this?
But they're getting there now.
And I've got story here, St. Louis Post Dispatch.
I mean, this paper would probably lead the movement to have Missouri secede, or at least not secede, to kick the state fare out of the state.
And the post-dispatch, they're just a good old liberal paper.
And even they, low premium, high deductible health plans are endangered by Affordable Care Act.
What that means is if you like your plan, if you like your insurance, you're not gonna get to keep it.
Obama's made this promise over and over.
You like your doctor, nothing changes.
You like your plan, nothing changes.
And the St. Louis Post Dispatch has a story on how, oh yeah, it's gonna change.
So all of these drive-by media outlets are finally starting to report the truth of Obamacare.
Now, granted, they are years late.
And this is why they're dying.
They used to be first in discovering this stuff and telling people about it.
But now they're part of the regime and driving the regime's agenda.
So anyway, here's Lisa Myers.
And we have two sound bites.
She is the investigative correspondent.
And we have two bites on her report.
Here's the first one.
Luke Perfect has worked at a subway franchise in Maine for a decade.
But he recently was told his hours would be cut to 29 a week.
It's very tough.
I'm scratching by as it is with overtime.
Luke's boss, Lauren Goodridge, who owns 21 Subway franchises, says it's all because of the new health care law.
Employers must provide health insurance to anyone working 30 or more hours a week.
Goodrich says his small business can't afford that.
Yeah, how many how many how many low information voters watching NBC or hearing this for the first time?
You know, one of things I like to do.
I like to pretend I'm a low information voter.
It's a very hard thing to do.
It's it's you have you ever tried to pretend you don't know what you know?
It's very, very hard if you're conscious at all.
But I still, I try to pretend I'm a low information voter and I'm just hearing this for the first time.
I'm sitting out there and thinking my health care is going to cost nothing, or it's going to be close to nothing, gonna be free and whenever I want it and whatever I need, and I'm I'm watching the news, and then I'm seeing, wait a minute, people are losing their jobs because of this.
How can that be?
It's free.
I try to imagine the low information voters' reaction when they watch a story like this.
And I maybe I mistakenly assume that it connects with them, but I'm as part of the pretending I'm pretending that they hear it.
Here's uh Lisa Meyer's second installment of the report.
At St. Petersburg College in Florida, 250 part-time professors have had their hours reduced.
It has been the hardest uh decision that I've had to make, and I hope that we can work our way through it to a better answer than we're able to give today.
Part-time math professor Tracy Sullivan lost half her income.
I never thought it would impact me directly.
I was stunned when I got the email.
I am stunned listening to this.
Here you did you hear that, snurdenly under your office.
What are you researching there?
You you searching Google.
Part-time, part-time math professor.
Tracy Sullivan lost half of her income.
Tracy Sullivan says, I never thought it would impact me directly.
I was stunned when I got the email.
A part-time math professor didn't know that Obamacare was going to convert her job to part-time.
It's stunning.
And she was furthermore, insult to injury found out in an email.
She could have found out watching the news or listening to this show.
She could have found out this is going to happen months ago.
It just uh it boggles the mind.
That's why I try to pretend to be one of these people when they first learn about this.
And they're thinking it's going to be free.
Look at what she said.
I never thought it would impact me.
I never thought all this stuff was going to impact me.
And then I got the email.
Whoa.
My brother was on Hannity last night, David, the uh the noted columnist and author and agent.
And he was on there with Ichabod Goolsby.
Uh, my nickname for Austin Goolsby.
It looks like Ichabod Crane, you know, the neck that's about 15 inches long.
Looks that looks like a nickname.
He's a nice guy.
It's an affectionate nickname.
And the uh the the whole concept of the limbaugh theorem, limbaugh principle came up.
And Hannity said, Byron York of the Washington examiners had, quote, behind the scenes in whispered asides, not for public consumption.
Some Republicans are now worried that keeping the House in 2014 is not such a done deal after all.
So how can that upset be avoided?
And York says he uh says Republican candidates don't need to tell voters what a bad job the President's doing.
They already know that.
Instead, what GOP candidates need to do is convince voters that they would do a better job than the Democrats.
And then my brother David weighed in.
I disagree with his point that voters are aware of Obama's failed record.
My brother Rush talks about the Limbaugh principle where Obama is able to distance himself from his own policies and act like an outsider.
Republicans have not done a good enough job, specifically tying Obama and Mr. Goolsby, his economic architect, to these disastrous policies that are destroying the country.
It's a false choice to say we either have to make a negative case or a positive.
Of course we give a positive case, a pro-growth plan, defunding Obamacare and presenting an alternative and getting America back to work.
Yeah, but the point is he's right.
The assumption here that everybody knows Obama's making a train record, they don't know that.
That's the whole point.
Republicans have not connected Obama to any of this.
Because they're all afraid of being treated like the rodeo clown is being treated.
If you want to know, folks, why the Republicans do not push back against Obama, look at that rodeo clown situation, and that's exactly why.
They are exactly precisely afraid of just that kind of thing happening to them.
And so he said, Byron York is is might not be correct here when he says that Republicans don't need to tell voters what a bad job Obama's doing.
Obama's whole existence, his whole presidency has been designed to insulate him from any accountability for any of this.
So good point.
Next up, Hannity said, well, first there was the delay of Obamacare's Medicare cuts.
Then there was the employer mandate delay.
Then we have this new development that I just spoke of.
You're the lawyer, David.
Can the president just unilaterally decide to change the law of the land?
The contempt that he has shown for the Constitution and the rule of law is appalling in so many areas.
Remember the thousands of waivers?
Remember the employer mandate that he exempted and he delayed and he did not delay the employee mandate discriminatorily?
That's gotta be unconstitutional.
Of course that's unconstitutional.
And he doesn't have the authority to do it.
Mr. Goolsby, I wish you would condemn President Obama from hopefully you would say departing from what you would recommend.
The President has no authority to unilaterally change a law that Congress passed and he signed.
And that's true.
It's unconstitutional.
And here's what Gouldsby said.
We are going to play the next bite Friday.
Here is uh here's Goolsby in his reaction.
He has no authority to change a law, but with if the law gives the administration authority to the administration For the law, then they do have the right to administer it however the law sees fit.
And there has been, other than on this program, there has not been any serious legal challenge to the constitutionality of the administrative changes there.
Did you guys even care?
A bunch of academic pointy head tyrants sitting around their tables devising this law.
Did you have any idea what it would do?
You didn't.
Nobody read it.
Pointy heads sitting in the faculty lounge theorizing exactly right.
Quick timeout.
Your telephone calls when we get back.
Don't go away.
Hi.
Welcome back.
Great to have you here.
By the way, one more little tidbit on this rodeo clown thing out of the Missouri State Fair.
Did you hear the the worst thing the rodeo clown called Obama?
He called him uh goober.
I'm not kidding.
The uh rodeo clown has this guy been identified yet, or is he still?
Uh okay.
He has been outed.
Doesn't matter.
He's never gonna get another job as a clown or anything else.
I'm looking at a picture now.
I think it's funny.
I'm sorry.
I think it's hilarious.
Just looking at that.
See, I happen to like satire, parody, and caricature.
I happen to be an expert at it.
At any rate, he called him a goober.
I did not know that goober was a racist word.
You know what a goober is.
It's a peanut like Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Car.
It's a goober.
It's a certain kind of peanut.
You know, there are different grades of peanuts.
They're the kinds of peanuts that end up in a planter's can on your cocktail table, and then there are the rot gut peanuts that end up in peanut butter.
And I I think the kind of goobers that Jimmy Carter, he was a peanut fauna, and his peanuts went into peanut butter.
That's what a goober is.
For those of you in uh in Rio Linda.
Here's uh here's Janie and Soda Springs, Idaho.
Hi, Janie.
I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi, Bud Diddles from Idaho Rush.
Thank you very much.
And it's a great laugh being on hold.
Well, good.
I'm glad you enjoyed it.
And well, here's my question, and I I thought of two more parts to this.
Um who's more powerful?
The Obama regime or the Clinton regime?
And will it be a knockdown drag out fight or and and divide the party, or um will it be will the agenda have more have more impact on them and make them work together for the greater good for 2016.
Uh well, the you're talking about the presidential race in 2016 will be a knockdown drag out.
Will it?
Is that what you're asking?
Yeah, the two powerful regimes.
Who's more powerful?
The Obama regime or the Clinton regime?
Well, I don't think there's any question about it.
There's no there's no question about it.
The Obama regime.
Hands down.
How's this going to impact Miss Hillary?
Is she gonna I don't know.
I I I here's the thing about the 2016 race.
I uh it's look it's arguable.
The Clinton regime, in terms of of power.
I I I have to say, if Clinton could have done what Obama's doing, he would have done it.
If Clinton and Hillary could have done this, they would have.
They just weren't unable to get away with it.
That's why I think that the Obama regime is more powerful.
They're actually, I mean they tried health care, they didn't get it.
Obama did.
And with raw power.
But Obama's been aided by something that Clinton was not able to capitalize on.
That's race.
Obama's race basically silences the opposition.
So when you talk about the 2016 presidential race, if the nominee is Hillary, the Democrats' thinking is that they can keep this whole game going where you can't criticize their nominee.
You got the first black president, and you can't criticize him.
Otherwise, you're no different than the rodeo clown in Missouri.
You're uh you're uh just a racist subhuman species scum if you criticize Obama.
And they're gonna try to carry that on with Hillary as the potential first female.
Any criticism would be said to be sexist.
And the Republicans will have fresh memories of what they will consider to be the successfully waged war on women.
So it might not me be knocked down drag out.
It just remember it it's going to depend on what kind of guts the Republicans have.
And it'll depend on who the nominee is.
The nominee will set the tone, and we don't have any idea who that's going to be.
So it's too early to be able to answer that question in anything other than a wild guess.
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At 800-282-2882 from the Daily Caller, less than 3% of the U.S. federal workers want to give up their current health plans and join Obamacare, according to a new poll.
92.3% of federal workers think they should continue with their current health insurance program.
Now, where have we ever seen a poll?
Where have we ever seen a poll where ninety-seven percent of Americans agreed on anything?
But at the same time, what this tells us is what a sweetheart deal federal workers have under their current insurance plan.
And bear in mind, federal employees do not have to enroll in Obamacare.
They get to stay on the federal system.
And if they do go, if they opt out and decide to want to get into it, they're going to be subsidized by the Office of Personnel Management.
But federal employees are now scared to death that they might have to suffer under Obamacare too.
Especially now that Michigan Republican Representative Dave Camp has introduced a bill that would force federal workers into Obamacare.
And you know what?
This is a bill that the Republicans ought to trumpet from the rooftops.
They ought to make noise on this like they never had.
They won't, but they should.
This is a Dave Camp, Michigan, introduced a bill to force federal workers into Obamacare.
Ninety.
Less than 3%.
Less than 3% want to join Obamacare.
You know, the health care news, it just uh it just continues to pile up.
Here's a story from the the Blaze and uh AP.
The regime has been continuously violating federal law by delaying a law enacted by Congress without any legal basis.
This from a federal appeals court.
A federal appellate ruling on Tuesday.
The decision refers to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's move to delay a proposed nuclear waste dump in Nevada.
Judge Brett Kavanaugh writing the majority opinions.
The President may not decline to follow a statutory mandate or prohibition simply because of policy objections.
But that's exactly what he's doing.
Now you heard in a soundbite moments ago, Ichabod Goolsby say that the president can't do this unless the law grants him the permission to do it.
And the implication was that Obamacare grants such powers to the president.
It doesn't.
It grants the powers to the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
You go through the Obamacare law and you will see the phrase, as the Secretary shall determine.
So many times it's hard to count up in 2200 pages.
But they have not, Congress did not transfer all of this power to Obama.
He doesn't care.
He's just delaying this and uh withholding that.
Hundreds in D.C. lost Medicaid assistance without cause, says an attorney.
This in the Washington Post.
After a spinal condition paralyzed her legs six years ago, Joyce McGwain Gray crawled into her second floor bedroom and holed up for nearly a year for her weekly medical appointments.
She relied on firefighters to carry her down the 12 steps from her room.
She grew hopeless until a social worker told her about the district's elderly and persons with physical disabilities waiver program.
Now, what let me get to the short version of this story.
Hundreds of poor people and hundreds of sick people have been dropped from government Medicaid for no reason.
They can cut you off whenever they want and blame it on a paperwork snafu.
And this is in the era of Obamacare.
These are poor people and sick people on Medicaid.
And some bureaucrat somewhere is just determining, you know, we don't have the money anymore, and they're just eliminating benefits.
I know it's a bit of a dilemma, but the point here that this flows from the story about whether or not Obama has the kind of power he is wielding to just choose when and where to implement what and what not in any law.
He's just, if he doesn't like something in the law, he's delaying it, not implementing it, not prosecuting it, and he does not have this power.
But he'll continue to get away with it as long as uh as long as he's not called on it.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, I really don't mean to beat this to death.
I have delayed this until the third hour of the program.
And it is about the Oprah.
And I'm looking here to see if there's any audio on it.
I just want to make sure that if there is, I don't miss it, but there isn't.
Which is okay.
Perfectly fine.
The latest on the Oprah story is that the low information entertainment network TMZ has just launched a salvo into the Oprah about this.
UK Daily Mail with one story before we get to TMZ.
Exclusive.
Swiss store owner at center of Obama, or I'm sorry, of Oprah's racist handbag storm demands to speak to the Oprah after the Oprah says she's sorry for the fuss.
The owner of the upscale boutique, where the Oprah claimed she was barred from buying a $38,000 handbag by a racist sales assistant.
Today demanded to speak to the Oprah that she branded over sensitive and insisted that her employee did everything right.
And then let me read to you from the story.
It's not my editorializing.
The story actually says the rather fearsome looking Trudy gets.
That's the store owner.
Have you seen a picture of her?
Well, I have too, and it I can see it.
I can see the rather fearsome looking.
Trudy Getz said that she wanted to speak with the Oprah as soon as possible, and she also revealed her petrified member of her staff will not be fired and will not be punished.
So this the rodeo clown treatment is not going to happen To the sales lady at the upscale bag store in uh in Zurich.
She said, I don't know why the Oprah talked of racism.
I'm sorry, but perhaps she's being a little oversensitive here.
Maybe she was somewhat offended because she wasn't immediately recognized.
See, they're fighting back over there.
Maybe the Oprah would just upset because they didn't roll out the red carpet and recognize who she was.
But I think this is a teachable moment on several levels.
Especially since it's beginning to look more and more like the Oprah may have decided to relate a composite experience.
Now, you know what I mean by that.
In one of Obama's autobiographies, he took a bunch of women that he had known and combined them into one woman.
And when that was exposed by David Marinus, the autobiographer, we were told that's no big deal.
That is a clever uh tool used by really brilliant authors.
It's it's called the composite character.
Rather than take up so many pages and so many words describing each and every woman, the president brilliantly combined them into one woman.
And that's what uh composite experience.
So it's beginning to look here like the Oprah may have decided to relate a composite.
Maybe something happened in one outing, and another time she went to store, something else happened, and another time she went to store, this happened.
And she took all of these various instances and she combined them into this one visit to the bag store in Zurich.
Yeah, like Obama's girlfriend, exactly.
The composite of Obama's girlfriend is first autobiography.
And the reason I say this is because the Oprah seems to be backing away from the claim that it was all due to racism.
Now the article points out here that in her latest interview, the Oprah seems to suggest that it might all have been due to the way she was dressed.
Which is entirely possible.
It could also be because Oprah is a plus size.
And the assumption is made that plus size people, because they live in food deserts, uh not rich.
I don't even I don't know why that's controversial.
You know as well as I do that one of the signs of wealth in women is that you can barely see them.
They're so skinny.
Tom Wolfe had a name for them, social x-rays.
You could see their rib cages through their skirts, dresses, whatever that they wore.
They were so thin that if you ever embraced one, your ribs could bruise you.
You don't find.
Now, sometimes you'll find a very uh solid gut big guy, is a wealthy guy.
But you don't find wealthy women wearing plus sizes.
Not by rule.
There are exceptions, of course.
I don't want to mention any names.
But I think this might have been it, but it it it's looking less and less like it was racism, is the point.
And now the TMZ story.
It's uh uh low information voter alert here, TMZ, which is the the website, the network of low information entertainment voters, picked up this story, and they're basically calling Oprah a bully.
Last night Oprah said, I'm reading from the TMZ story.
Last night Oprah said, I think that incident in Switzerland was just an incident in Switzerland.
I'm really sorry that it had got blown up.
I purposely did not mention a name of the store.
I'm sorry that I even said I was in Switzerland.
And the TMZ story then says the problem is that O's full of it.
What did she think was gonna happen when she went on national TV and cried racism?
Media were just gonna ignore it.
And then at the end of the story, they say, come on, O, you're smarter than that, and so are we.
So the official website of record low information voters is not buying the Oprah's story.
And I've got to take an obscene profit timeout.
We'll be right back.
Wouldn't it be great if the media would spend as much time on Obama's failed health care as they are on the Rodeo clown?
Story.
Well, we can dream.
Folks, he'd be back here tomorrow.
Open line Friday, as we No.
Sorry, I got a day ahead of myself.
Something happened.
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